WEBSITE PRIVACY POLICY | Ellen Vintner

Website Privacy Policy

Ellen Vintner is a sole trader committed to protecting and respecting your privacy.

This privacy policy sets out how I will use and protect any information that you give when you use this website.

I am committed to ensuring that your privacy is protected. Should I ask you to provide certain information by which you can be identified when using this website, then you can be assured that it will only be used in accordance with this privacy statement.

By registering, downloading information or entering this site (as defined below) you consent to the collection, use and transfer of your information under the terms of this policy.

This policy may be changed from time to time by updating this page. You should check this page periodically to ensure that you are happy with any changes. This policy is effective from 1st May 2023.

What we collect

I may collect and process the following information about you:

Information that you provide by registering or by filling in forms on this site www.ellenvintner.org. This includes information provided at the time of subscribing to any services I offer, downloading information posted to this site, posting material or requesting further services.
Other information from your interaction with our site, services, content and advertising, including computer and connection information, statistics on page views, traffic to and from the site, ad data, IP address and standard web log information.
If you contact me, then I may keep a record of that correspondence.
Details of your visits to my site including, but not limited to, traffic data, location data, weblogs and other communication data, whether this is required for our own purposes or otherwise and the resources that you access.

IP addresses and cookies

I may collect information about your computer, including where available your IP address, operating system and browser type, for system administration and to report aggregate information to our advertisers. This is statistical data about our users’ browsing actions and patterns and does not identify any individual.

For the same reason, I may obtain information about your general internet usage by using a cookie file which is stored on the hard drive of your computer. Cookies contain information that is transferred to your computer’s hard drive. They help us to improve this site and to deliver a better and more personalised service. They enable me:

To estimate our audience size and usage pattern.
To store information about your preferences and so allow us to customise our site according to your individual interests.
To speed up your searches.
To recognise you when you return to our site.

Overall, cookies help me to provide you with a better website, by enabling us to monitor which pages you find useful and which you do not. A cookie in no way gives us access to your computer or any information about you, other than the data you choose to share with us.

You can choose to accept or decline cookies. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. This may prevent you from taking full advantage of the website. Unless you have adjusted your browser setting so that it will refuse cookies, our system will issue cookies when you visit our site.

I use the third-party service Wix so that I can improve my service to you. You can read Wix privacy notice by clicking here.

A useful resource to understand and manage Cookies can be found by clicking here.

What we do with the information we gather

We use information held about you in the following ways:

Internal record keeping.
To ensure that content from our site is presented in the most effective manner for you and for your computer.
To provide you with information on the services that you request from us.
To carry out my obligations arising from any contracts entered into between you and us.
To allow you to participate in interactive features of my service, when you choose to do so.

If you do not want us to use your data in these ways, please contact us directly by post at 28 Laurel Road, Chalfont St Peter, Buckinghamshire, SL9 9SW or by email at counselling@ellenvintner.org

Disclosure of your information

I do not, and will not, share your contact information with any third parties, for any purpose unless required by law to do so.

Your rights

You have the right to ask me not to process your personal data for marketing purposes. You can exercise your right to prevent such processing by contacting me directly by post at 28 Laurel Road, Chalfont St Peter, Buckinghamshire, SL9 9SW or by email at counselling@ellenvintner.org.

Security

I am committed to ensuring that your information is secure. In order to prevent unauthorised access or disclosure, we have put in place suitable physical, electronic and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure the information we collect online.

Links to other websites

This website may contain links to other websites of interest. However, once you have used these links to leave our site, you should note that we do not have any control over that other website. Therefore, we cannot be responsible for the protection and privacy of any information which you provide whilst visiting such sites and such sites are not governed by this privacy statement. You should exercise caution and look at the privacy statement applicable to the website in question.

Access to information

You may request details of personal information which we hold about you under the General Data Protection Regulations (2018).

If you believe that any information we are holding on you is incorrect or incomplete, please write to or email me as soon as possible, at the above address. I will promptly correct any information found to be incorrect.

Changes to our privacy policy

Any changes I may make to our privacy policy in the future will be posted on this page.

Issue date 1st May 2023

Version 1.1

Contact

The data controller is Ellen Vintner and the ICO registration number is C1333709. Questions, comments and requests regarding this privacy policy are welcomed and should be addressed to counselling@ellenvintner.org.

I have a separate Privacy Policy for Counselling Clients, and a copy of this can be found by clicking here.